Land-based Empires

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  1. 3. a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, and others in 1534, to do missionary work.
  2. 5. a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
  3. 8. member of a fringe, or radical, movement of the Protestant Reformation and spiritual ancestor of modern Baptists, Mennonites, and Quakers.
  4. 10. a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
  5. 11. an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th centur
  6. 12. considered the father of modern science and made major contributions to the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics and philosophy.
  7. 13. an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens
  8. 14. a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music.
  9. 15. a German professor of theology, priest, author, composer, former Augustinian monk, and is best known as a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation and as the namesake of Lutheranism.
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  1. 1. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
  2. 2. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
  3. 4. a part of the Calvinist tradition within Protestantism
  4. 6. an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Renaissance.
  5. 7. a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries.
  6. 9. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.